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Fashion Value Chain
26-05-2025
- Business
- Fashion Value Chain
Jeanologia Showcases Sustainable Denim Innovation at Kingpins China
Jeanologia, the Spanish tech leader in eco-friendly textile finishing, showcased its latest innovations at Kingpins China, Asia's premier denim trade event, on May 22–23 in Hangzhou. The company introduced a disruptive approach combining laser and G2 Indra ozone technologies, setting a new benchmark in sustainable, expressive denim design. This breakthrough method eliminates harmful chemicals, water usage, and pumice stones while enabling hyper-realistic 3D effects and textures, offering brands a clean, efficient, and agile production process. Jeanologia's 'Denim Métiers' exhibition, created in partnership with Kingpins, bridged the worlds of denim and haute couture, using laser as a creative tool for craftsmanship. Each garment in the capsule collection was a laser-sculpted piece of art, elevating denim into a refined medium of contemporary expression. Jessica Lau, Brainbox Product Development in Asia, emphasized: 'There are no more creative limits. Any aesthetic can now be achieved sustainably.' Jeanologia also participated in the 'Denim in the Digital Age' panel, highlighting its eDesigner platform, which enables digital prototyping and reduces physical sampling by up to 80%, accelerating product development from concept to market. The show concluded with a catwalk presentation of Denim Métiers, revealing Jeanologia's most artistic application of laser-enhanced denim. With over 20% of China's jeans already using its technology, Jeanologia reaffirms its leadership in the region and its commitment to a more responsible, digitalized, and automated textile future.
Fashion Value Chain
19-05-2025
- Business
- Fashion Value Chain
Archroma Showcases Eco Denim at Global Trade Shows
Archroma, a global leader in sustainable specialty chemicals, is set to unveil pioneering denim technologies at two major international fairs: Denim Première Vision in Milan (May 21–22) and Denimsandjeans in Vietnam (June 25–26). As environmental concerns over conventional denim production grow—due to its heavy water, chemical, and energy usage—Archroma is responding with cleaner, high-performance solutions. The company will spotlight its DENIM HALO system, an advanced pretreatment and dyeing innovation. This process integrates DIRSOL® RD p with Archroma's indigo, sulfur, or biosynthetic dyes, enabling mills to achieve high-contrast, distressed denim effects without altering standard dye setups. Notably, it eliminates potassium permanganate use, reduces yarn shrinkage, improves garment strength, and cuts down on water and energy use. Also featured is Archroma's Black Denim Capsule Collection, produced in collaboration with Kipas Denim and finished using Jeanologia's eco-washing technology. The collection exemplifies elevated style with responsible production, highlighting DIRESUL® EVOLUTION BLACK—Archroma's most sustainable sulfur black dye—and DENISOL® PURE INDIGO 30 LIQ, a pre-reduced, aniline-free indigo that performs like traditional indigo but with lower environmental risks. A third innovation, EarthColors®, uses non-edible food and agricultural waste to create high-performance dyes, reducing the fashion industry's water and carbon footprint while promoting circularity. These innovations aim to redefine the role of denim in fashion, offering designers and manufacturers the ability to create trend-forward looks that align with sustainability goals. Visit Archroma at:
Fashion Value Chain
28-04-2025
- Business
- Fashion Value Chain
Jeanologia Drives Sustainable Textile Innovation at IGATEX 2025
Spanish sustainable textile technology leader Jeanologia is spearheading modernization efforts at IGATEX 2025, hosted at Karachi Expo Center from April 24–26. With nearly 20 years of local presence, Jeanologia continues to drive Pakistan's transformation into a sustainable denim powerhouse through cutting-edge automation, digitalization, and eco-efficiency. At IGATEX, Jeanologia unveils the Compact Super, the fastest laser machine on the market, aimed at revolutionizing garment marking with higher speed, precision, and cost-effectiveness. The brand also showcases its innovative Laundry model — the first pollution-free denim finishing plant — highlighting a hyper-automated, scalable, and cost-neutral production approach. Jeanologia's technologies, including laser, ozone, e-Flow, and H2Zero water-recycling systems, have already enabled local manufacturers to cut water use by up to 85%, minimize chemical dependency, and improve worker safety. 'Hyper-automation is a key enabler of sustainable, profitable production,' said Umer Khan, Area Manager for Jeanologia Pakistan. 'With Laundry Pakistan is poised to lead global denim manufacturing with eco-efficiency and advanced technology.' Pakistan's textile sector, contributing 8.5% to the national GDP, continues to be a vital player in the global textile market. Jeanologia's ongoing partnerships with local mills, exporters, and brands aim to reinforce Pakistan's leadership in sustainable fashion innovation. Currently, over 35% of the world's five billion jeans are made using Jeanologia's technologies, reaffirming the company's commitment to revolutionizing textile production through sustainability, digitalization, and automation.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
EIM Report Calls for Ban on Potassium Permanganate and Pumice Stones
Environmental Impact Measuring (EIM), the self-accreditation tool that measures garment finishing processes' environmental impact across four categories—water and energy needs, chemical impact, and worker impact—published its first report. The 'Innovations and Challenges in Denim Finishing: 2024 Report' aims to set a new benchmark for sustainability in the industry by providing analysis based on data from over 115,000 denim finishing processes collected through the EIM platform. More from Sourcing Journal Jeanologia Celebrates World Water Day with Data Jeanologia 'Reinvents' Textile Finishing in Egypt Juan Carlos Gordillo Creates Painterly Collection with Cone Denim and Jeanologia The report reveals that 63 percent of the analyzed processes are already classified as low environmental impact, reflecting a positive shift toward more responsible practices. The energy category has the highest percentage of low-impact processes (85 percent), suggesting that practices in this area are well optimized. The water category 'shows decent performance' with 71 percent of low-impact processes. However, the report states that the current average water usage in denim finishing is 30 liters per garment, which is still above EIM's recommended benchmark of 22.5 liters per garment. Pivoting to low-impact chemicals remains a significant challenge for the industry to address. The report highlights the denim industry's use of hazardous chemicals (24 percent of processes), particularly potassium permanganate (PP) and pumice stones. PP accounts for 9 percent of the processes, while pumice stones account for 16 percent. Both processes require safer and more sustainable alternatives due to their negative effects on both the environment and worker health, the report states. The strategic selection of ZDHC-certified chemicals and the automation and digitalization of manual processes are also among EIM's proposed improvements. 'For years, the textile industry has lacked reliable tools to measure its environmental impact, making data-driven decisions difficult,' said Begoña García, creator of the EIM platform and co-author of the report. 'This report marks a crucial step toward transparency and continuous improvement, showing that technology is key to measuring and reducing environmental impact.' EIM has become a leading tool for measuring the environmental and social impact of textile finishing processes. Used by over 100 brands and over 500 laundries and production centers worldwide, it has been integrated into the sustainability strategies of companies across the market—from denim giants like Levi's, Tommy Hilfiger and Guess, to H&M and American Eagle to leading laundries and finishing centers. The software platform was designed by Jeanologia's R&D team called Brainbox in 2009. It initially served as an internal tool to direct the technology firm's development teams in how to develop commercial garments while lowering the environmental impact of the processes used to make them. According to the report, the tool became an effective way for the Spanish technology firm to communicate cost savings to clients. By 2018, an advisory working group of experts from laundries, brands and retailers was created to establish a 'level of independence' from Jeanologia. This resulted in a commercial version of the software available for all finishing equipment, whether they're produced by Jeanologia or not. The report addresses some of the concerns mentioned in a 2024 Kingpins Quarterly feature, which questioned if the standard by which Jeanologia is measuring denim production is fair and if the data is accurate. It states that two key initiatives have been developed and implemented to maintain data integrity, including an accreditation program created and managed by Jeanologia is designed to educate EIM users a uniform understanding of the software, and a third-party validation, conducted by GoBlu International Limited. The validation involves assessments at the facility level and product level, the review of past and current orders, as well as 'ensuring robust management systems are in place to secure data effectively and accurately,' the report states.
